Most of you have seen all the advertisements for Internet dating sites. You know the ones, they encourage you to join their site and meet thousands of available men, try new things, and find Mr. Right.
You’ve probably even read articles recommending this website over that website, articles telling you how to be successful on On line dating sites, and even articles where people tell you that met the man of their dreams.
While all these things are true. What no one tells you is that before you meet Mr. Right you are going to meet a lot of Mr. Wrongs. That is not a bad thing. Even meeting the wrong guy can prove to be quite an experience. If nothing else they can prove you with a lot of great stories to tell your friends and co workers.
Here are a few of the Mr. Wrongs I met in my two years of dating On Line.
The Shrinking Violet
No this isn’t a man who is extremely shy. This type of Mr. Wrong is usually quite out going both on line and off. His emails are usually funny, interesting, and filled with with interesting little tidbits. His photo image can reveal a gentleman who is everything from average looking to down right handsome.
The problem lies, in his physical description. These men are always at least 5′11” tall or taller, which being a woman who stands 5′8” is definitely a plus. I feel funny towering over my dates. Which is why it came as a shock to me that when I actually met these men they seemed to shrink just minutes before our date.
I’m not talking a an inch or two here. Most of them shrink at least 6 inches and one shrunk definitely a foot. The first time it happened, I figured there must have been a typo on their profile. By the third time I was convinced that the strain of meeting someone they met on line, actually caused them to dwindle in stature!
While many of these shrinking violets, were fun to meet, great conversationalists, I never dated them more than once. The reason for that being, that if merely meeting me for coffee once could take inches off their height, I was afraid that after two or three dates, they were simply shrink up and disappear.
The Toe Good to True Man
Thankfully I only met one of these through out my on line dating career. Though I will say that this man provided me with a lot of laughs.
Again his emails were interesting and seemed sincere. He came across as highly intelligent and a well put together individual. I have no reason to believe him to be any one other than who he said he was.
The problem with this erstwhile gentleman came in his third email when he requested that I send him a different picture of myself than what was on my profile. This request is not that unusual as many people put false pictures up on their profiles and some people like to be sure that you are who you say you are.
No the problem was this man wanted a picture not of my face but of my bare feet. You see, it seems he had a foot fetish, and did not want to date any one who did not have great toes! Needless to say, he did not get the picture and we never met.
Environmental Man
Probably 15% of my emails came from this type of man. While I am all for saving the environment, and a appreciate a man who wants to go green, I will admit, that I was a bit offended to learn these men’s idea of going green only extended to a “green card”
The Frat Man
I met a few of these men along the way. They may or may not have attended college. But all these men were obviously frat men because they they definitely knew how to rush a woman. Some of them were just in a rush to meet, others were in a rush to get into an intimate relationship, still others were in a rush to get married and would propose by the second or third email site unseen!
While I understand that the majority of these men were lonely which is a truly good reason for joining a dating site, their desperation to be in solid relationship before they even knew if the two of us were even remotely compatible had me backing off rather rather quickly.
The Psychic
The Psychic like the Frat man, never made it as far as the first date. The reason being there is just something a little off putting about receiving an initial email that says, “One look at your profile and I knew we were destined to be together.”
Perhaps, it is because deep in my heart I believed if these men were as psychic as they claimed they would not have needed to see a profile to figure out their destiny. Wouldn’t they have just appeared one day on my doorstep, knowing automatically where I lived and what I looked like? Wouldn’t they have found me on their own without the aid of modern technology?
Besides, if they were truly as psychic as their email seemed to suggest wouldn’t they have known that I would not be impressed by such an email?
TV man
This type of man, never even got a response from me. While normally, I would at least take the time to answer an email and inform a gentleman I did not want to get to better that I was not interested, my one exception was Mr. Television himself.
Anyone whose first introductory email is filled with innuendo, and suggestiveness in the hope of turning a woman on deserves to be shut off without warning.
The phantom lover
Being somewhat old fashioned and a bit naive, the first time I met one of these men, I was shocked and embarrassed. However, after being on the Internet dating sites for a while, I tended to look at this group of men with a certain kind of humor.
These are the guys, who after a couple of emails, makes it clear they are want an intimate relationship but, don’t want to meet at all. They believe, that the perfect love affair is one you create in your imagination and just type out over the IM for their personal amusement.
They just could not seem to understand why a man I could not see, talk to, or touch, was not my idea of the perfect man. After all, one of them reasoned, He could be anyone I wanted him to be.
Unfortunately or fortunately as the case was he was wrong. He couldn’t possibly be the man I wanted him to be, which was real.
Yes, Internet dating is certainly an adventure. You do meet all kinds of interesting people, don’t let the Mr. Wrong’s of the world keep you from searching for your dream. Just going into the whole on line dating scene with a sense of humor and you will be find.
Who knows what type of character you might meet?
